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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C64GS games machine console
Message-ID: <TFa7P2w163w@valnet>
Date: 27 Sep 90 20:53:28 GMT
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es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

> 
> 	   Commodore announces the C64 games console.
> 
> West Chester, PA: CBM International Ltd.'s subsidiary in the U.K.
> has introduced its C64 games system, a C64 based games console
> for western european markets.
> 	The C64GS comes with a joystick and a port for cartridge
> based software. Cartridges will include four games, a feature
> designed to give the C64GS a competitive advantage against other
> game only computers. The product will be sold in several western
> european countries, including the U.K., which has become a new
> center for C64 software developments.
> 	Commodore International Ltd., through its operating
> subsidiaries around the world, manufactures and markets personal
> computers for the professional, home/office and consumer markets.
> The company has three product lines: Amiga multimedia computers,
> PC compatible computers and the classic C64 computers.
> 
> P.S. Jeff, cross-post to CI$. 8)
> 	-- Ethan
> 
> Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
> 
> *Iraq += *Kuwait;
> NumCountries--;
> 
> and by popular demand...
> 
> free(Kuwait);

Remember...Commodore decided NOT to sell this thing since it'd be too 
much competition with the Amiga. Also, remember, that Commodore has 
stopped selling 8-bit stuff.

-Joseph Hillenburg

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